|
KMID : 0986720180260020025
|
|
Korean Journal of Medicine and Law
2018 Volume.26 No. 2 p.25 ~ p.50
|
|
|
A Study on the Realization of Tele-medicine and the Method of its Improvement
|
|
Lee Han-Joo
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Today, the so-called ‘intelligent information society’ means that ICT(information communication technology) and AI(artificial intelligence) have been combined with each other, and it will makes paradigm of the whole world changed totally. In particular, the intelligent information technologies such as Big Data, AI and IoT(Internet of Things) are expected to play a key role in developing our life rapidly, namely culture, industries, transportation, medical treatment, and so on. In particular, ICT and medical technology have developed rapidly over the past 10 years, to keep pace with development, the government aims to extend tele-medicine services focused on a form that doctors can diagnose and prescribe through the patient’s status directly via a variety of electronic devices in the patient’s house or the outside, not medical institutions.
In 2002, at the time of the first regulations relating to telemedicine on medical law, the purpose of legislation was only intended to take advantage of medical personnel’s knowledge of the professional sector engaged in a large medical institutions from a distance. However, it is still controversial in the medical law whether it is possible to care many patients outside medical institutions by using information and communication equipment with physicians in other regions. If we can agree on that the essences of medical practice are ‘professionalism’ and ‘face-to-face’, it is because of the ‘morality’ and ‘responsibility’ as a conduct dealing with ‘human’. It is not enough to take functional approach. Therefore, even if the most advanced technology is going to emerge in the future, medical personnels have to take the ultimate responsibility and the technology ought to remain in complementary position. By a positive interpretation of §36(3) of the constitution, we can find a normative foundation of constitutional right to health as an entitlement or claim right to the government. And the public health of medical care has been derived through constitutional right to health. There are still unclear provisions about telemedicine in medical law. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss the preconditions and environment for the successful implementation of telemedicine in Korea and to provide institutional maintenance that contains specific regulations.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
tele-medicine, medical Law, right to health, in-person medical treatments, public healthcare
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|